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araway's Cyborgs
Donna Haraway is
perhaps the best-
known exponent of
technoculture. In
her celebrated
book, Simians,
Cyborgs, and
Women (1991)-a
powerful feminist
critique of science
and technology -
she introduces the
novel idea of
cyborgs.
Organisms are no
longer bodies of
knowledge but
biotic components,
a kind of
information-
processing device.
We are thus facing
a new boundary
between science
fiction and social
reality, the no-
man's-land
inhabited by
cyborgs.
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